We keep hearing that the pork in the bill is 1% of the total. Tonight while channel flipping MSNBC, Maddow, had a reporterette on that said even Senator Jim Webb is upset with this "stimulus" bill quoting him as saying there is at least 100 billion of costs that do not belong in this bill. No vote tonight. Harry Reid was "mistaken" about having the votes. Dems are losing moderate Democratic Senators on this bill.

To top it off, Barack Obama goes on TV tonight from the Democratic junket in Virginia that is costing taxpayers about $80,000 and thanks them for the event because it gave him the opportunity to fly Air Force One to the event. Then he gives a totally partisan blame the republicans speech. What a SLIME BALL!

oh here comes the setup—he’s inviting the RINO’s to cross the aisle now and sign the POS after shaving $100B off it. Stupid RINOs will do it, and the plan will be fulfilled. Dems never intended to get all they asked for anyway..just wait, next week it’ll pass and we will be told that everybody wins! yippeee

He used AF-1 to fly 131 miles to attend a Congressional Democratic retreat. Wonder who is picking up the tab for the retreat? Ironic this is happening at the same time the government is telling companies to cancel junkets.

Obama rants and raves about the excesses of Wall St CEOs.
He goes on tv almost hourly telling the American people how dire and precarious our lives are.
And then he brags about having an excuse to short hop on AF1 as if he was taking a test drive at the Prius dealer.
Tonight he was tone deaf , agitated, unpresidential and nasty.

The distance from Wash ro Williamburg is about 150 miles. Why did he not take one of his three helicopters?? No, instead he probably racked up plus $200K in costs for security, flight and special seats for his friends and, in the process, actually took longer to get there!

Among many other wasteful, non-stimulative projects, it includes $650 million for digital TV coupons, $1 billion for climate satellite and habitat restoration programs, and $600 million to replace a portion of the federal government vehicle fleet.

In the video below, I lay out in stark terms exactly why this bill, as currently written, is not worthy of our support. Please take a moment to watch.

The Gallup Poll found that 54% of Americans either want to see major changes to the current plan, or they outright reject it. Other surveys are also indicating that public support is plummeting. Politicians can call it stimulus and they can call it change, but it's just more of the same - and the American people are starting to realize it.

That's why the time to act is now. With so much at stake, our elected officials need to hear from us.

Here is what you can do - pick up your phone and call your Senators right now at 202-224-3121. Let them know exactly what you think about how they intend to spend your hard-earned money.

The Senate is voting at the end of this week, so please make the call today.

You have to understand DC inside baseball. Pork = some other politicians "earmark," and not your own. An earmark is something that is sponsored by a particular congressman, for his district and is specifically directed targeted spending within a bill, and not under the nominal discretion of the agency through whom the pork passes. What you all are complaining about is waste, which in DC is affectionately known as "programs." Program expenditures, after appropriation, are nominally under the control and oversight of the agency through whom the waste passes [though some "telephonic" direction may come from powerful committee chairmen].

Useful expenditures are also called programs so it is all very confusing to the unwashed.

They remain in a panic. It’s a lot different when you have to answer for what you are so they will try and keep up the charade because Virginia isn’t that blue yet, but there is no doubt their true natures would like to tow the party line. This is proof the Demonrats don’t want to own this and their policies are nice in rhetoric yet a complete disaster they don’t want to take the fall for. Lost, empty, wicked souls every last one of ‘em.

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